Creative Director

Salary: $69,000 - $77,300

This role uses its extensive background to direct the vision of the project across a creative team to produce content incorporating innovative design along with targeted messaging. This role is a hands-on professional with the ability to apply his/her knowledge of the client’s market, organizational goals and strategies to execute on story and/or design through appropriate technology.

The Creative Director role entails overseeing the entire creative production output for a Creative Services studio. This position requires strong communication skills, a professional demeanour, and someone willing to proactively support and engage with surrounding colleagues and clients. Collaborating with an onsite Studio Manager, responsible for the studio's operational aspects and direct management, the Creative Director is expected to offer assistance as needed.

Reporting into the WL Group Account Director, who holds overall accountability for
delivering all services provided to this client, this role is integral to the wider account management team for this client.

Responsibilities

• Inspire, lead and drive high quality creative production output from conception

• through to completion

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to deliver value, quality and

• strategic output for them

• Identify creative production opportunities within the bank, helping to create a

• pipeline of work for the studio

• Align approach within the studio with client strategies from across the business,

• including brand marketing, events, and corporate communications

• Deliver industry insight and market trends to drive innovation

• Collaboration with the wider WL creative production community

• Identify and develop solutions which meet client requirements, work within the

• client brand guidelines and are accessible for the intended audience

• Provide creative consultation as part of the briefing process with the studio on

• best solutions and media, to ensure a successful output and happy client

• Hands on management of complex jobs, pre-empting issues, coordinating work

• and production, including print and delivery

• Monitor progress of activities to ensure adherence to deadlines, quality

• standards, and client brand guidelines

• Ensure that message quality, format, and content meet the brief and are

• consistent with firm-wide communication guidelines

• Guide and advise members of the team in the design and use of template

• material, providing training where necessary

• To be a technical expert in all areas of design for print and digital media

• To ensure quality control and pre-flight checking procedures are adhered

• To support the Studio Manager in ensuring internal workflow practices are

• adhered to within the studio, and all billable work is recorded

• Some global travel may be required from time to time

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level in a relevant discipline, preferably with approximately 10+ years in the Design sector.

• Excellent communication skills, articulate, personable and confident

• Enjoys working with and presenting to clients with excellent client relationship

• and management skills

• Experienced leading a team of designers and takes a collaborative, proactive

• approach to handling issues and supporting clients

• In depth knowledge and understanding of design and production across printed

• and digital disciplines

• Highly organised managing yours and others workloads, managing multiple

• projects effectively with a polite confident manner

• Calm and mature personality with the ability to work both on own initiative and

• in a team environment, often under pressure and to strict deadlines

• Strong level of technical and integrated creative design knowledge